Epic poems have many characteristics. There is a "hero" who is important and has a significant ability or characteristic. There is usually a supernatural aspect, a villain of some kind, and an overlying theme.
There are also several technical aspects. The poet is usually objective, there is repetition in the wording, and an extended speech made by the "hero" is featured at some point.
Travel literature
Explanation:
<u>Beowolf is an epic written in Old English about a hero who travels to faraway lands on an adventure to defeat a big creature of which he is destined, This journey is his struggle against mortality.</u>
<u>The whole traveled journey plays into the motif of a quest or a voyage</u> which is integral to travel literature of the early days and as such is a significant part of the body of work that became to be classified as travel literature later on in time.
